Build the Path to Your Future

OPPORTUNITY

The CSKILLS pre-apprenticeship training program opens the door to New York City residents seeking meaningful long-term careers in the unionized building and construction trades, that offer high wages, health benefits, and retirement security.

DIVERSITY

Since its inception in 2001, CSKILLS has worked to contribute to a highly-skilled, more diverse, and stronger workforce, with 90% of our program participants representing communities of color from across the five boroughs of New York City.

RESULTS

Construction Skills has placed more than 2,500 New York City residents into apprenticeship programs jointly sponsored by union affiliates of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC).

Pre-Apprenticeship

A pre-apprenticeship is a work-based learning program designed to prepare individuals to enter and succeed in an entry-level union apprenticeship program.

Direct Entry

Participants who successfully complete the Construction Skills Pre-Apprenticeship training earn a Direct Entry referral to a unionized registered apprenticeship program for which they are qualified.

Placement Opportunities

Construction Skills places their qualified candidates into “earn-as-you-learn” apprenticeship programs jointly sponsored by the union affiliates of the Building and Construction Trades Council of
Greater New York (BCTC).

BUILDING FUTURES FOR NEW YORK CITY’S NEXT GENERATION OF SKILLED CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS